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OK, this is neat. The Switch version lets you have a two screen display when playing undocked, much like one of those cocktail tables with an arcade machine built in. 1:40 if the timestamp doesn't work It's completely pointless, but very cool, regardless.

Stock matches tonight from 8pm.

Not even Wii Sports?

Having just read the rather confusing interview in Nintendolife I feel the developers are sending out a few mixed messages about the game. ”After announcing the game the other day, a lot of people have referred to this game as being heavily inspired by, or a heavily similar game to the Chibi-Robo series.  But I think that’s just because they’re looking through these lenses that are tainted with their experience of having played Chibi-Robo.  And actually, this is its own very different sort of game.” Surely part of the reason this is getting so much attention is because it’s being thought of as a spiritual follow-up?  They’ve advertised it as being a little robot who traverses the house cleaning up mess, solving problems, meeting a kooky cast of characters and being careful because it has a limited battery life before needing to be recharged. Whereas Chibi-Robo was all about being a little robot helper who traverses the house/garden, cleaning up mess, solving problems to spread happiness to the humans and cast of kooky characters it meets, all the while being mindful that it has a limited battery life that needs to be regularly recharged…